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Google's Project Loon internet balloons to circle the Earth

Posted in Hardware on 29th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

"It used to take 14 people an hour or two to launch a balloon, now with an automated crane we can launch a balloon every 15 minutes with two or three people."

Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines

Posted in Business on 26th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

Making its systems smarter and better able to deal with ambiguous queries is one of the ways Google can keep a grip on time-starved mobile users.

Google Loon is almost perfected and Google plans to scale globally as soon as possible

Posted in Business on 17th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

'For the last two years we have almost perfected the technology, its time for us now to scale in this part of the world.'

More than half of Google searches now happen on mobile devices

Posted in Online on 9th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

At some point this summer, Google said, there was a tipping point: Now the majority of web searches happen on mobile devices.

Facebooks Drone Team Is Collaborating with Google's Balloon Project

Posted in Online on 8th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

The companies are collaborating on efforts to use balloons and drone aircraft to expand internet access unconnected four billion people.